Posted on Oct 16, 2016
How would you react to an E2 who "smart mouths" you in formation?
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Here's the background. You're a senior E5. Your troops are in formation and you're handing out work for the day. You hand out an assignment to a fresh E2 with less than a year in and only a few months at your command. They blatantly complain and tell you to choose someone else. You calmly tell them they will do this task and they tell you to shove it and give it to someone else. How do you react?
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He would never forget my response. Had one tell a E5 no in my presence once. The rest ran for the door.
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Needless to say I would have hemmed his butt up. I just retired in '12 and even then we were getting in the "why me" Soldiers. It is directly on your leadership style what you will take.
I had an E-2 who's uncle was an E-7 in the OKNG call me one morning. He questioned me on why his nephew was not released yet to go home for the weekend for a family reunion. Mind you it was well before lunch on a Friday, notwithstanding right? My unit was in transition at the time to go over the pond to serve as Radar sections and our battery was split 7 ways from Sunday doing their own training, and deploying.
Of course I was wanted to ask him what the hell he was thinking calling and questioning me but I did keep my bearing.
At that point and time I was more pissed off at the SFC that he had the gall to call and question me.
The issue at hand. Police calling the barracks that he and the rest of the single Soldiers lived in.
Point to this, the why me crap is one reason why I am happy that I retired when I did.
I had an E-2 who's uncle was an E-7 in the OKNG call me one morning. He questioned me on why his nephew was not released yet to go home for the weekend for a family reunion. Mind you it was well before lunch on a Friday, notwithstanding right? My unit was in transition at the time to go over the pond to serve as Radar sections and our battery was split 7 ways from Sunday doing their own training, and deploying.
Of course I was wanted to ask him what the hell he was thinking calling and questioning me but I did keep my bearing.
At that point and time I was more pissed off at the SFC that he had the gall to call and question me.
The issue at hand. Police calling the barracks that he and the rest of the single Soldiers lived in.
Point to this, the why me crap is one reason why I am happy that I retired when I did.
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not only would he still be required to perform the task,,,, pls about 6 weeks of extra dutty
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Burn him. At no time is that kind of insubordination allowable. Make an example of him.
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He would be doing alot of extra duty, seeing the First Sergeant, and receiving an Article 15(
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